Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-12-17
Military Protection Against Hostile
 Apaches.

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 Southern Arizona Journals have seen tit to commend the article entitled aDis- trinution of Troops and Abandonment of Useless posts" that was published in the issue of the Belt of Nov. 18th. But the Prescott Courier. ID its usual and pecu- lar style, refers to this subject in q doz- en line squib as an attempt to urge Gen. eral Miles to remunerate Tucsonites for the merited kindness recently shown hun, by statloning more troops at Low ell.
 The editor of the Courier protesses to be an old settler of ;hIs country; thas be has invested hi5 accnmaissioa5 for the past twenty odd years m ArzJna, and that he has the best interests and pros- perity Of the Territory at heart. If all tbis Is so i! Is unkInd In the Courler to ietec. SO severely upon the generous admiration oi, not only the people of Tucson, but of all Ar'Zone, for the successful operations ct GeDI Miles against the hostile Apeches. We hardly think that the Cou- rier gave the article referred to, the Consideration 1t merited aud that Msri- on's noted championship of all that concerns Prescott caused him to speak hastily and without due rt tisotion.
 A brief study of the best policy to pursue in the government of the Apa- ches, now that it Is decided to keep the Indians located ss they are upon the White Mountain Indian Reservation, VII convince any one that It necessary to SO guard the Indians that it will be uext to impossible for them Co escape from the large area of country set apart for their use in the event of an outbreak. As long as the government chooses to maintain the ApAehes at San Carlos, so long must strong measured be taken to protect the people of Arizona from dis astrous Indian depredations. There gre now about $500 Indians at San Carlos Agency, and about l500 more at and near Camp Apache. which post is loost- ed st the Northeastern corner of the res erystion sixty miles by trail and eighty miles by road distant from San Carlos. There are some troops ststioned at San Carlos, and the posts of Thomas and Grant, situated south and close to the reservation, constitute the balance of the military forces stationed to guard the couotIes of Graham, COchise, Pima, and @ %A.~A -ANN- rL0 e1'oAAt VI huc Luulhut.
 The Southeastern portion of Yavnpai County and the entire county of Gils is entirely unprotected. Camp MoDowell Ia located ninety odd miles from Globe City and equally as far from that part of s. E. YavapaI that was. in 1881, depre- dated by White Mountain Apschss; and Camp Verde is farther still fram spy of the possible points of attack that ihe rRidinG Indians could select, while Ft. Whipple, near Prescott. might as well be planted in Washington for all the benedt 1t could afford in an Iedian cam paign. It takes three days to travel from Mcdowell to Globe, and commun- ication between Camp Apache and those two posts bp direct road that can be speedily trsversed, Is impossible. owing to the intervening mountain ranges.
 In our article of Nov. 26th, we con- showed that Camp Verde and Whipple were Cf no value in military operations and their abandonment was suggested. If the troops al Verde were moved to the locality of Tonto Greek in Gila county, and a poet established on the western line of the reservation, the people of Gila county and Tonto BB-in, in Yavspsi county, would be se- cure in their lives and property. The number of Indians in Salt River Valley IS the pretext for the maintenance of Ft. McDowell, but Fit. Lowell, from it's situation on the line of the railroad, can send troops to the vicinity of Phenix in a shorter space of time then the foi mer pos, could possibly do.
 With a line of troops surrounding San Carlos, the Courier would have no op- por.unity of chroniclinR the news of In disn Outrsges committed north and vest of the White Mountain Indian reseTva- tiOu, and that paper, no doubt, would be amply rewarded for the loss of Verde ana Whipple in the satisfaction of know ing that their abandonment affords that security and protection which we sc greatly need in this section of Arizona. Silver Belt.